On Monday, Pence visited the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) bordering North and South Korea. The Washington Post reports that although Pence wasn’t supposed to step outside, he did anyway.

Why? So North Koreans could get a load of him deploying his mean face in their direction.

“I thought it was important that we went outside,” Pence said, according to the Post. “I thought it was important that people on the other side of the DMZ see our resolve in my face.”

CREDIT: AP Photo/Lee Jin-man

During a speech he made aboard the USS Ronald Reagan in Japan on Wednesday, Pence following up with tough talk, saying “the United States of America will always seek peace but under President Trump, the shield stands guard and the sword stands ready.”

South Koreans, however, aren’t so sure. After it was revealed President Trump was either lying or misinformed when he told Fox Business he was “sending an armada” to North Korea last week, Hong Joon-pyo, the presidential candidate from former​ South Korean leader Park Geun-hye’s ruling party, said the fiasco undermined the administration’s credibility.

“What [Trump] said was very important for the national security of South Korea,” he said, according to the Wall Street Journal. “If that was a lie, then during Trump’s term, South Korea will not trust whatever Trump says.”​